Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

| THE executive board of Good Templars
| in session at Boston, on the Goth, elected
W. w. Turnbull, of Glasgow, Scotland, to
be Right Worthy Grand Temp,ar in place
of Hon. ]. B. Finch. DR.. Oronhy atekha,
of Ontario, was chosen to fill the office
vacated by Mr.. Turnbuli.
A TELEGRAM was received at Wash
| ington on the Goth from Prof Wiley. of
| the Agricultural Department., now in
| Louisiana, stating that the cyclone on
| that day entirely wrecked the machinery
erected for the purpose of trying the ex.
| pertinent of making sugar by the diffusive
| process.
THE st. Louis Browns are champions of
of the world no longer, the Detroits hav-
| ing taken the winning game at Baltimore
! on the 2lst, after sustaining a most decid-
ed defeat Washington on the forenoon
of the same day.
MCCULLOUGH, accused of the horrible
murder on the high seas, was released on
$1,000 bail at Galveston, Tex, on the 21st.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL delivered
| another of his characteristic speeches on
the Irish question at Seaham, England,
| on the 21st.
TAMMANY Hall and the County Democ-
racy of New York City have harmonized
and nominated joint city ticket.
HOPKINS, the missing clerk of the United
States Court at Austin. Tex. charged
with forgery, has been located at Parras,
| Mexico.
THE story that the Gear of Russia con-
| templates visiting Berlin is pronounced a
hoax in that city, but apparently relia BILE
| reports come from London to the contrary.
ANDREW FLEMING, a negro, was hanged
at Tallulah, La, on the 21st, for the muir.
der of Demp Benyon. On the scaffold he
said he was willing to die.
By the falling of a scaffold at the
barbed wire mills at Allentown, Pa, on
the 21st, Samuel Mebus was instantly
killed and Titus Sterner fatally injured.
1T is rumored that the Prohibitionists
and Labor party will fuse and nominate
General Clinton B. Fiske, of New Jersey,
for President and Terrence V. Powderly,
of Pennsylvania, for Vice President.
HUGH DUFFY, the Lowell (Mass.) short
stop and third baseman, has signed with
the Chicagos for 1883, receiving $500 in ad-
vance.
THE boiler of portable saw mill at
West Brownsville, Pa, exploded on the
21st, with terrific force. Two brothers,
John and VIM. Kelley, were instantly
killed, and a man named Mccain is miss
ing. The mill is a total wreck.
COLUMBUS DELANO, president of the
National Wool Growers Association, has
called a meeting at Washington for the
first Monday in December, when a com.
mittee will be announced to confer with
similar committee representing the wool
manufacturers of the East relative to the
adjustment of differences on the tariffs.
SERIOUS trouble was anticipated on the
23d at London, the unemployed working.
men and their sympathizers having deter.
mined to parade in force and hold mass.
meeting. All troops in the city were or.
dered to hold themselves in readiness for
duty.
MISS JOSIE HOLMES, the private secre-
tary of E. L. Harper in the Fidelity
National Bank, of Cincinnati, was
arrested on the 21st by United
States officers on north bound
railway train at Hamilton, o. She was
taken to Cincinnati at midnight and put
in Jail. There was belief that United
States officers would make numerous
Fidelity arrests before morning.
DYNAMITE which was being dried at
fire, exploded at Leitcher, N. S., on the
21st, killing a man named Mckenzie and
badly injuring man named Mccormick.
The men were laborers on the Cape Breton
railway.
THE special commission appointed to
appraise the property south of the Capitol
at Washington, owned by General B. F.
Butler, with a view to it's purchase by the
Government, has made a report to the
Secretary of the Treasury stating the
value of the prope rty to be $277,OOO, OF
$1,000 more than the figure at which it
was offered to the Government by General
Butler a year ago.
GENERAL MANAGER HUTCHINSON Of the
Southern Pacific railroad has telegraphed
Division Superintendent Lindberg of Ell
Paso, Ariz., that the railroad company
will pay Express Messenger Smith, who
killed the two train robbers, $500 for each
robber, which is double the standing offer
of the company. This insures Smith q
total of at least of $1,000 or Sc, 600 in re-
wards.
DETECTIVES SHELDON AND HURD arrest
ed John Casey, one of the prisoners who
made a sensational escape from the Wor-
cester (Mass.) Jail last May, as he was
going on board Havana steamer in New
York on the night of the Goth. The men
who escaped with Casey are Dave Jewell
and Jas. Kenny, burglars; Harry Gray
and j. F. Walsh, pickpockets, and Geo.
Barton, bigamist.